Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Thomas G. Willis
Being a pylons newb myself, the first thing I did was write auth and registration. It took a day.Granted I wasn't trying to support every auth method I could think of like authkit does,but I learned lots.If you want auth (and other things) rolled in use use turbogears. But getting basic

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Colin Flanagan
-discuss pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 11:17:23 AM Subject: Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details That's it.. that's the reason to use Pylons: SQLAlchemy. If you need to actually use a database correctly (which I'm guessing that you do), then you need to use

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: Django is like Rails -- it forces you into building certain types of apps with certain styles. If you build a Django app , you're pretty much married to it -- and can expect it to work much like other apps.

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm curious if Django's CMS reputation comes from the fact that it's used by a lot of newspapers and content providers, or if there really is something that makes it advantageous over other frameworks. Django's

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one.  I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data.  I was urged by different people to do it either in Django or Plone, but went with Pylons. My

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Jan 19, 1:29 pm, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one.  I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data.  I was urged by different

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Jan 19, 12:26 pm, Noah Gift noah.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: Django is like Rails -- it forces you into building certain types of apps with certain styles. If you build a Django app , you're pretty much married

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Lemoine
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data. I was urged by

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 12:26 pm, Noah Gift noah.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: Django is like Rails -- it forces you into building certain types of

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Lawrence Oluyede l.oluy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm curious if Django's CMS reputation comes from the fact that it's used by a lot of newspapers and content providers, or if there really

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data. I was urged by

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com To: pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:45:35 PM Subject: Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details On Mon

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Miles
On 20/01/2009, at 3:30 AM, Thomas G. Willis wrote: Being a pylons newb myself, the first thing I did was write auth and registration. It took a day.Granted I wasn't trying to support every auth method I could think of like authkit does,but I learned lots.If you want auth (and other things)

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-14 Thread Iain Duncan
I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. I think you are maybe mixing up Formencode and some projects that use formencode. Formencode's core is for validating and converting to and

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-14 Thread Iain Duncan
Cropr's point seems to be that programmers should not design forms because graphic designers do a much better job. That is true only if a complex visual design for the form page is paramount. In most cases the complex design occurs on the home page and content pages, and the form is

Re: Problems with AuthKit (was: Django or Pylons - comparison details)

2008-12-10 Thread Gustavo Narea
Hello. On Wednesday December 10, 2008 07:56:18 Dalius Dobravolskas wrote: I personally think that it is not possible to write universal authorization system that will satisfy everyone but it is possible to simplify writing one to very low level. Agreed. Let me advertise repoze.what a little

Re: Problems with AuthKit (was: Django or Pylons - comparison details)

2008-12-10 Thread Raoul Snyman
Hi James, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 PM, James Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) the author or authkit is never around I am occasionally ;-) b) authkit is way over complicated Agreed, but authentication and authorisation *is* complicated and there are lots of different use cases.

Re: Problems with AuthKit (was: Django or Pylons - comparison details)

2008-12-10 Thread James Gardner
Hi Raoul, Sorry, I quoted someone else, and I didn't clarify to say that I don't agree with him 100%. Faux pas on my part there, I didn't intend to be insulting. What I tried to convey was that AuthKit doesn't fit *my* needs. Sorry, I hadn't seen the earlier thread, my fault too. Not at

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread cropr
I choose Pylons and not Django for 2 specific reasons - Mako SQLAlchemy are far superior than the templating engine and ORM of Django. - Pylons is full WSGi from the ground up. It Django WSGI smells like Object Orientation is pasted into Perl One item I really liked about Django that is not

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. When a graphical artist designs the

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. When a graphical artist designs the layout of a web page, he uses tools who speak html, css and javascript, but no

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Ian Bicking
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. When a graphical artist designs the layout of a web page, he uses tools who speak html, css

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Noah Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can

Re: Problems with AuthKit (was: Django or Pylons - comparison details)

2008-12-09 Thread Dalius Dobravolskas
Hello, Raoul, These are the things I wanted in my auth+auth system: - Customisable table names - Users, Roles and Permissions - Hide/show menu items pulled from the DB, based on permissions - Enable/disable links, based on permissions - Hide/show sections of pages, based on permissions -

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Krishgy
If your questions needs to be answered quickly, Django may be right choice. I think, you could have known why not to use PHP when you ask question on Django vs Pylons :-) . I NEVER worked on Python at jobs. I wanted to create a website. I have chosen Pylons over Django due to its customization

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Krishgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your questions needs to be answered quickly, Django may be right choice. I think, you could have known why not to use PHP when you ask question on Django vs Pylons :-) . I NEVER worked on Python at jobs. I wanted to create

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Alex Marandon
2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your background. The Pylons ecosystem is very powerful but it's quite

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your background. The Pylons

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Jose Galvez
Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your background. The Pylons

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ian Bicking wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Bicking
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Krishgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your questions needs to be answered quickly, Django may be right choice. I think, you could have known why not to use PHP when you ask question on Django

Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-06 Thread zunzun
Comparison before starting a project, used to decide which framework to use. Django: according to http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/about Members 12,016 Group Activity is High Pylons: according to http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/about Members: 1,748 Group Activity is

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-06 Thread Mike Orr
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Ben Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:31 AM, zunzun wrote: Comparison before starting a project, used to decide which framework to use. Django: according to http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/about Members 12,016 Group Activity